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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:52:34 -0700 From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com> To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:33:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl) wrote: > >> http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/ >> "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths" >> >>We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is >>necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. >>We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of >>these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern >>storage platform. > > There is another approach for that - do not use slab allocator for > network dataflow at all. It automatically has all you pros amd if > implemented correctly can have a lot of additional usefull and > high-performance features like full zero-copy and total fragmentation > avoidance. Agreed. But probably more intrusive than davem would be happy with at this point. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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